“I hear the term 'spread offense,'” Jones said at DeBord’s introductory press conference. “If anybody can give me the definition of spread offense, I'm all up for it. I think it's the most misused term in all of football. I think it rivals the term of the 'West Coast offense.' I don't know if people think you're in the gun, you're a spread offense. I don't know if its personnel. I don't know if it's no-huddle.

“If you remember, on Dec. 7, when I stepped forward to that podium and the question was asked about your offensive system, I said we're going to be an up-tempo, no-huddle offense that could control the tempo and be a pro-style offense with the ability to gain advantages through motions, through shifts, through speed, through play of our pace. The ability to create space and pace but also the ability to run the football.

“Growing up, when I heard the term ‘spread offense,’ right away, you thought of a finesse offense. We'll never be a finesse offense here at the University of Tennessee. We're going to have attitude running plays within our scheme. Everyone uses the term ‘spread offense.’ I don't think anyone truly understands the true definition, because every individual spread offense means something different.”

well I'd say it's more than no one outside of Stanford and bama runs a traditional pro style offense anymore really. but the things he is talking about certainly derived themselves from teams that people considered spread teams in the past.

well I'd say it's more than no one outside of Stanford and bama runs a traditional pro style offense anymore really. but the things he is talking about certainly derived themselves from teams that people considered spread teams in the past.

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If he was smart, he would sell himself as a guy that learned and helped Kelly and Rich Rod create two great offensive systems.